A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire, Institute on Disability (UNH-IOD), have authored a new article that identifies how Americans with disabilities are striving to work and overcoming barriers to employment. Their findings are detailed in “Striving to work and overcoming barriers: Employment strategies and successes of people with disabilities,” which was published online February 26, 2018 by the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. The authors are John O’Neill, PhD, and Elaine Katz, MS,…

As engineers at Cloudflare quickly adapt our software stack to run on ARM, a few parts of our software stack have not been performing as well on ARM processors as they currently do on our Xeon® Silver 4116 CPUs. For the most part this is a matter of Intel specific optimizations some of which utilize SIMD or other special instructions. One such example is the venerable jpegtran, one of the workhorses behind our Polish image optimization service. A while ago…

Mizzou NSBE was named Region V Medium Sized Chapter of the Year for chapters with less than 75 members, taking top honors in a region that includes much of the Midwest, along with Mexico, Central and South America, South Africa and the Dominican Republic. The chapter also won the National T.O.R.C.H. (Technical Outreach and Community Help) Chapter of the Year for their work in the Columbia community and had two members elected to regional leadership — Nosakhare Eke (Region V…

Haptic interfaces allow humans to handle dangerous or delicate materials. From laparoscopic surgery to radioactive waste removal to the simple act of putting a mobile on vibrate, robotics are getting touchy. Now, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an even more expansive haptic interface that allows for seven degrees of movement. The most common haptic interfaces typically have three degrees of movement. The research findings were published on the January 10th issue of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica…

At Square, we manage large amounts of information for our merchants. This includes the data surrounding what a merchant sells — their products, prices, taxes, and the configurations associated with those entities. We refer to this dataset as a merchant’s catalog. Managing this data can be challenging. Merchants’ catalogs can be quite large. They must be synced with mobile devices which may be offline for extended periods of time, allowing the two versions of the catalog to diverge. Catalogs need a sophisticated…

Marge Skubic, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Mizzou, recently was elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows. She was inducted alongside 155 colleagues from across the country in Washington D.C. on April 9. Photo courtesy of AIMBE. Marge Skubic’s extensive and groundbreaking work in the field of eldercare and rehabilitation technology has earned several honors over the years. The latest comes from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Skubic, professor of Electrical Engineering and…

Today we are introducing Spectrum, which brings Cloudflare’s security and acceleration to the whole spectrum of TCP ports and protocols for our Enterprise customers. It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet; whether it runs email, file transfer or a custom protocol, it can now get the full benefits of Cloudflare. If you want to skip ahead and see it in action, you can scroll to the video demo at the bottom. DDoS Protection…

An analysis of radar data led scientists to an unexpected discovery of two lakes located beneath 550 to 750 metres of ice underneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. They are thought to be the first isolated hypersaline subglacial lakes in the world. “We weren’t looking for subglacial lakes. The ice is frozen to the ground underneath that part of the Devon Ice Cap, so we didn’t expect to find liquid water,”…

Muhammad Salim, alongside Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Ferris Pfeiffer and recent MU Engineering graduate Lia Howe, published an abstract titled “Computational Modeling of Stress Relation in Articular Cartilage,” and Salim presented the accompanying poster at this year’s ORS Annual Meeting in March. Photo courtesy of Ferris Pfeiffer. Having an abstract accepted and getting the opportunity to present a poster at the Orthopaedic Research Society’s Annual Meeting is a huge honor for any researcher. To do it as a sophomore is…